Cytherella

Cytherella is a genus of seed shrimp in the family Cytherellidae.

Cytherella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CytherellidaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Platycopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Platycopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
blindPBDB, for Platycopida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 449 million years on record.

The record covers at least 449.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 665 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 665 occurrencesDevonian — about 1 of 665 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 4 of 665 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 665 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 665 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 665 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 24 of 665 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 81 of 665 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 46 of 665 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 16 of 665 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 48 of 665 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 66 of 665 occurrencesPaleocene — about 73 of 665 occurrencesEocene — about 86 of 665 occurrencesOligocene — about 62 of 665 occurrencesMiocene — about 132 of 665 occurrencesPliocene — about 9 of 665 occurrencesPleistocene — about 13 of 665 occurrences466–451 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences451–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences404–389 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences389–373 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences358–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–327 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences327–311 Mya — about 2 occurrences311–295 Mya — about 1 occurrence264–249 Mya — about 2 occurrences249–233 Mya — about 2 occurrences218–202 Mya — about 20 occurrences202–187 Mya — about 22 occurrences187–171 Mya — about 62 occurrences171–155 Mya — about 55 occurrences155–140 Mya — about 8 occurrences140–124 Mya — about 13 occurrences124–109 Mya — about 14 occurrences109–93 Mya — about 25 occurrences93–78 Mya — about 30 occurrences78–62 Mya — about 78 occurrences62–47 Mya — about 47 occurrences47–31 Mya — about 81 occurrences31–16 Mya — about 106 occurrences16–0 Mya — about 94 occurrences449.6 Mya11.7 ka466 Mya0 Mya

665 occurrences of Cytherella on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

665 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

101 formations

Jagüel — 38.17°S, 68.67°WJagüel — 38.85°S, 67.87°WJagüel — 38.98°S, 67.53°WDhruma — 24.23°N, 46.58°EDhruma — 23.97°N, 45.17°EDhruma — 23.53°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 22.45°N, 46.00°EDhruma — 24.75°N, 46.08°EDhruma — 22.17°N, 46.83°EDhruma — 22.83°N, 46.83°EDhruma — 25.70°N, 45.67°EQom Formation — 33.51°N, 51.99°ETurmiel — 40.62°N, 2.46°WTurmiel — 41.31°N, 0.81°WJurensismergel — 47.95°N, 7.82°EBrasso — 10.35°N, 61.38°WBrasso — 10.35°N, 61.35°WBrasso — 10.40°N, 61.32°WLa Rosa — 10.40°N, 71.10°WLa Rosa — 10.45°N, 71.20°WLa Rosa — 10.57°N, 71.15°WLa Rosa — 10.52°N, 71.22°WLa Rosa — 10.40°N, 70.80°WLa Rosa — 10.40°N, 71.02°WDenton — 32.75°N, 97.25°WDenton — 32.83°N, 97.23°WDenton — 33.15°N, 97.23°WDenton — 33.35°N, 97.18°WDenton — 33.37°N, 97.18°WDenton — 33.52°N, 97.17°WDenton — 33.72°N, 97.17°WTubará — 10.87°N, 74.98°WKössen — 47.55°N, 12.17°EDjangura — 43.94°N, 41.50°ERoca — 38.85°S, 67.87°WRoca — 37.56°S, 69.83°WRoca — 38.96°S, 67.59°Wfahdène — 36.57°N, 8.77°EBeacon Limestone — 50.94°N, 2.85°WBeacon Limestone — 50.94°N, 2.85°WCalcaires marneux du Santonien — 33.10°N, 5.30°WTiyon — 26.12°N, 67.83°EAksala — 61.07°N, 134.92°WSão Gião — 40.03°N, 8.47°WSanta Marta — 64.35°S, 57.40°WLizard Springs — 10.22°N, 61.13°WLizard Springs — 10.08°N, 61.28°WLizard Springs — 10.13°N, 61.38°WIrbzer — 33.10°N, 5.30°WPóvoa da Lomba — 40.03°N, 8.47°WAntigua — 17.15°N, 61.80°WAntigua — 17.03°N, 61.70°WTeplice — 50.40°N, 13.94°ETeplice — 50.53°N, 13.80°ETeplice — 50.67°N, 13.84°E

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The named rock units Cytherella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 77 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 258 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cytherella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cytherella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,900 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 488 sites for Cytherella, and this reads 240 of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

123 references

Each of the 665 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 111 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Cytherella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cytherella was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Jones 1849)